What’s the best Pre Workout of 2019? Depends what you want… our personal lists are below!

Everyone loves to talk about their favorite pre workout supplement, but everyone is different.

For simplicity, we’ve returned this page to the “Top 10 list” style, but we still have two major types of supplements for you to choose from – “mainstream” and “high-stim” / “aggressive”.

Open Labels Rule

In general, we prefer products whose labels are 100% open and nonproprietary, a recent trend many companies have taken. No more hiding the expensive/good stuff at the bottom of the list!

No scams here

If this is your first time at PricePlow, we are a price comparison site affiliated with as many stores as possible so that we can stay as unbiased as possible. We are in a convenient position where we choose our advertisers, and they must adhere to our standards of efficacy. Our opinions are never for sale… and unlike many of those other terrible “Top 10” lists, we certainly won’t push BS that will get your Visa charged $70 every month!

Next to get Grape Berry Crush? The top-rated pre workout, PRE Extreme!

Instead, we send you to the best price from any of our dozens of partner stores (Amazon included), and let you go from there.

Each product also has links to sign up for PricePlow’s email price drop alerts so you never miss hot deals on your favorite supplements.

Disclosure: PricePlow has received free samples of nearly every product mentioned on this page, including various competitors that aren’t listed. Using a team-based approach, we judge each product on merits of value, efficacy, labeling disclosure, and quality, and our opinions are never swayed by free samples.

Our Top 5 Pre Workout Supplements (Mainstream / Non-Aggressive Stims)

If you’re looking for quality, tons of natural ingredients, and banned-substance free tests, this is still a trusted one to go with that was way ahead of its time.

Kaged Muscle picked up where JYM left off (and this isn’t surprising, given that it’s the same formulator who’s picked up a few new tricks along the way).

Pre-Kaged is the much anticipated pre workout from Kris Gethin and Kaged Muscle. It has shattered expectations.

First things first — the 274mg of PurCaf organic coffee is 91% pure, so it provides ~250mg caffeine. Which leads us to the major point of this product:

Nearly all Natural Sources

When it comes to supplements, Kris Gethin likes to keep it as natural as possible. This monster of a tub brings 6.5g of fermented straight L-citrulline, fermented BCAAs, 250mg caffeine from 274mg PurCaf green coffee bean extract), and the same Spectra Total ORAC antioxidants.

They use the same natural betaine that has studies on it – BetaPower – and the hydration blend of taurine and coconut water powder keeps it natural too. The beet root extract also brings a realistic color.

In terms of flavoring and sweetening, Pre-Kaged uses mostly stevia, so that the sucralose stays as low as possible. Rumor has it that they’re trying to get rid of that sucralose so it’s 100% natural, so stay tuned to that!

Unlike some of the pre workouts above and below, the beta alanine is dosed at 1.6g, so you don’t tingle your ears off. The biggest drawback to us is the 1.5g of Patented Creatine HCl, which falls short of the 3g clinical dose. There are a few “half-doses” here, meaning the rest is part of the stack.

The big story/asterisk here is that while we are fans of Ghost Legend, we absolutely love the V3 Guzman edition. If that becomes a permanent fixture, it could probably go higher up.

But even without the Guzman treatment, the “OG” Ghost Legend has stood the test of time, and is an excellent blend between cost, effectiveness, ability to be enjoyed by everyone, and of course… flavor!!

By far Ben’s favorite of 2019, this one’s on the lower end of the stimulant spectrum with just 200mg caffeine, allowing him to have a great workout without getting blasted (which is good for those crazy powerlifting sessions). The newcomer on the scene and Ben’t can’t get enough of it!

NutraBio’s PRE Extreme is another in a wave of high quality effectively dosed pre workouts hitting the market.

What a pre workout this is. NutraBio is an industry veteran whom we couldn’t respect more. Their formulas are so open that they even disclose the amount of coloring, flavoring, and sweetener inside! (The colors are always natural, by the way.)

PRE Extreme took the scene by storm, not only because it has a fantastic array of pump ingredients, but also because it has 15g of carbs from high-end cluster dextrin – which provide fantastic pumps!!

It comes with a caveat though — you need to be able to handle the 350mg caffeine in order to get that full serving of pump action. The good news is that it’s a caffeine blend that has some caffeine from caffeine malate, which causes it to last longer and doesn’t hit as “hard” as 350mg of straight caffeine anhydrous.

There are four different pump ingredients (five if you count betaine!), all of them are hugely dosed, and that’s why it’s here. Starting with 6g citrulline malate (2:1 ratio), which is 4g of actual citrulline. That’s enough on its own, but there’s also Nitrosigine arginine silicate and agmatine too!

Pure Supplements. Pure Results. And they’ll back those supplements up with third party lab tests. Keep watching out for these guys in 2017!

Also important for a #1 pre — the ergogenics are fully loaded – 3g worth of creatine and 2.5g worth of betaine!

To top it off, there’s extra electrolytes, vitamins, minerals, etc… which we’ve seen get removed from pre workouts. Did we say it’s loaded? It is! You just can’t go wrong with this stuff!

Note on the carbs: Pre EXTREME contains 15g carbs, but if you don’t want the carbs, go with NutraBio PRE (without the Extreme). It’s carb-free and yohimbine-free as well.

Wow!!! Going back to the original 2-amino-6 form of DMHA, Alpha Lion has done it with this fantastic selection. On a “regular” day, the standard SuperHuman is the go-to. But if you need something supreme for those crazy crazy days, then you must check out the SuperHuman Supreme Label too!

Mike Roberto is a research scientist and water sports athlete who founded PricePlow. He is a biohacker with extensive experience in supplementation and dietary modification, whose personal expertise stems from several "n=1" experiments done on himself while sharing lab tests.

Mike's goal is to bridge the gap between nutritional research scientists and non-academics who seek to better their health in a system that has catastrophically failed the public.